• DocumentCode
    107270
  • Title

    New Musical Instrument Design Considerations

  • Author

    Paine, Garth

  • Author_Institution
    Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Oct.-Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    84
  • Abstract
    This article discusses the proliferation of new musical instruments and interfaces for computer-based music performance (digital musical instruments). It discusses the notion of a musical instrument schema and how preexisting musical practice can be used to provide design guidelines for this developing field. In so doing, it teases out notions of control and creation and discusses a number of theoretical positions for those notions in musical performance. The author provides a model for musical interface design and discusses it in terms of a large online database of digital musical instruments he has created.
  • Keywords
    database management systems; music; musical instruments; computer-based music performance; digital musical instrument design; musical instrument schema; musical interface design; online database; preexisting musical practice; Computer applications; Computer generated music; Music; computer-based music; digital musical instruments; multimedia; multimedia applications; musical interface design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    MultiMedia, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-986X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MMUL.2013.60
  • Filename
    6674037